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Originally Posted by shawn mccarver
There are only two components to a great "trigger job." The first is shooting thousands of rounds, and the second is increasing the strength of your trigger fingers (left and right hand) by either thousands of rounds of dry fire, or if a shooter believes that is bad for the revolver, then through the use of one of those V-shaped hand strength spring squeezer things. Turn it upside down, hold one leg of it with your thumb and three fingers, and use your trigger finger to "pull the trigger" by squeezing the other leg of the device.
The best trigger job is a strong trigger finger so that even a heavy trigger can be properly managed.
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Not sure how serious this post was.
I see your point, but it's not the whole story. To imply finger strength regardless of trigger weight and practice is all you need to do is misleading at best and perhaps dangerous at worst.
For example, if your pistol weighs 2 lbs loaded and you have an 8 pound trigger pull, it will take 4 times the loaded weight of the the handgun to make it fire! Larry Vickers points out that this disparity means the difficulty to fire it accurately goes up dramatically particularly under stress; and I would add that no matter how strong you have made your index finger, the physics of Mr. Vicker's point still show up when you fire that weapon.
Trigger jobs also address the pull being consistent throughout the cycle (see Jerry Miculek's video for the importance of this) because it's not simply pull weight, it is also trigger characteristics that take mechanical management and sometimes enhancement.
A mechanical enhancement is a poor substitute for safe and accurate gun handling, but it can be a great supplement to safe habits, practice, and even a bulked up index finger. Nor do you want to ignore a mechanical device in need of work to best suit the weapon and the shooter because someone told you the big thing you need is a macho finger.
To paraphrase Vickers, proper trigger manipulation is key to accurate pistol shooting – in fact, it is the most important factor when learning to shoot a handgun. For this reason alone trigger characteristics and pull weight deserve careful consideration and sometimes after-market service by a gunsmith when selecting a weapon to bet your life on.
No matter how strong or how controlled my manipulation of the action is, my third PC 627 is still going in for enhancement in the form of detailing fitting and stoning all contact areas because it helps in ways that simply can't be overcome by finger strength and practice alone.